Donald Trump has declared war on Canada.

Instead of bullets he’s using American dollars in an all-out economic war with one objective, and one objective alone: to take over Canada. He’s serious, folks … very, very serious.

For more than a hundred and fifty years, Canada had been America’s closest friend and ally, and its largest trading partner. As of Feb. 1, 2025, that deranged American Bully has turned America into Canada’s worst enemy. The relationship between our two countries has changed … and will never be the same again. To be clear, this is not a war with most Americans, but with Trump and his crooked allies.

It’s no coincidence he’s declared this illegal economic war amidst the massive confusion he’s created with hundreds of executive orders, and three contentious confirmation hearings in the US Senate, both dominating the media. He’s correct that most Americans won’t notice … well, maybe not just yet.
We’re going to fight. Canada can’t win a trade war. So, we must use alternate tactics: devious, unconventional, targeted, even bizarre, where it will hurt him the most … tactics to bring down upon him the wrath of red (Republican) states and force pressure on him from those bobble-headed criminal conspirators around him.

We are a peaceful, proud and prosperous people, but we sure as hell know also how to fight.

Our prime minister has rolled out an initial plan of response. But these are tariffs. We can’t win that game. There’s truth in the saying: you can’t win a pissing contest with a skunk, especially with an orange-headed skunk. Some of our provincial premiers have stepped up with action on American goods and services. This is a modest beginning.

Trump claims that Canada has nothing that America needs. It’s another lie in his cascade of lies that he knows most Americans will swallow … knowing also the world view of too many of his fellow citizens ends at their city limits, a few more at their state boundaries. Regardless, this war is not their doing. I say this with all due respect to my many American family and friends.

Some of what is proposed in the following just might break into the consciousness of and prompt a response from a few million Americans once they realize their well-being is in jeopardy.

Here are a few suggestions on how we should respond:

1. Trump’s illegal trade war against us includes a 10 percent tax on Canadian oil and gas exports to the US. We should therefore decrease our exports of oil and gas to America by the same percentage, i.e.,10 percent. If that narcissistic bully jumps the tax to 20 percent or more, then we decrease our exports to America by 20 percent or more, and so on. You get the picture.

Note: More than 60 percent of the oil and gas that America imports comes from Canada. That energy is used to power hundreds of thousands of homes, schools, hospitals, offices and business affecting millions of people in the US Pacific Northwest. Why not embargo energy exports? Hey, Donald Trump claims that Canada has nothing that America needs.

2. Canada should also reduce the electricity that Ontario and Quebec export to 1.6 million American customers in the midwestern U.S. And if he retaliates, we cut exports accordingly, again and again.

Canada exports enough electricity to the US to power 4.5 million homes in New York, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Blackouts and brownouts in homes and businesses and hospitals and military bases just might get the attention of those millions of Americans. Oh, right … Donald Trump claims that Canada has nothing that America needs.

3. Yet another option might be a countervailing tariff on Tesla imports to Canada. Better yet, an embargo. Elon Musk is running Donald Trump, so best we get Munk’s attention, too.

4. In addition to our oil and gas, and electricity, Canada has an abundance of critical minerals, 34 of them, actually: iron and steel, aluminum, gold, potash, uranium, lithium, copper, and rare earth elements, among others, many needed by American defense and domestic industries. Embargo exports. Oh, right … Donald Trump claims that Canada has nothing that America needs.

5. Canada is the world’s leading exporter of potash, and the United States is its largest importer. America’s farmers depend on Canadian potash – it’s the core ingredient of the fertilizer they need for their crops. A Canadian tariff and if necessary an export embargo will seriously affect not just millions of US farmers but increase grocery prices country-wide for tens of millions of Americans at a time they, like us, are struggling with increasing prices. Oh, right, right … Donald Trump claims that Canada has nothing that America needs.

6. Here’s another option. In 2023, Canada signed contracts worth $30 billion with Lougheed Martin for 88 fighter jets and with Boeing for 14 maritime patrol aircraft. Canada should put those contracts on hold and go shopping elsewhere: Britain and the European Union would be good places to start, maybe even China.

7. Pause all other federal and provincial contracts with American suppliers of goods and services, targeting especially suppliers in red states, and ban all future contracts. Banning orange juice and American alcohol are fine, but pathetic pattycake gestures compared with what we’re facing from Trump.

8. Confiscation: If all of the above doesn’t get the attention of that Orangeheaded Criminal in the White House, then perhaps this will: start confiscating American business holdings in Canada. Start by seizing American-owned energy companies, then other resource companies, then financial institutions, and so on. Yes, he’ll retaliate by seizing Canadian business. We may have to pay a steep price but here’s a case where that 800-ton elephant has more to lose than we do. Their losses will be more than enough to compensate Canadian businesses seized by Trump.

Yes indeed … these are bizarre retaliations, but these are bizarre times, no thanks to that sociopathic schoolyard bully in the White House.

Trump’s unconscionable behavior has also violated the trade agreement that he agreed to on behalf of America with Canada and Mexico … the CUSMA (USMCA in American lingo), successor to NAFTA. It’s a renegotiation he initiated and declared a triumph. Another lie. Clearly, his signature is worthless. Trump’s signature, like his word, has about as much dependability as a fart in a windstorm.

Trump whines about fentanyl and illegal immigrants going into the US from Canada, and money laundering. Those claims are red flags to distract us from his real objective. America’s own statistics proves that about one percent of the fentanyl and one percent of illegal immigrants entering the US come from Canada.

Here’s the irony: The US like all countries has the legal obligation for policing its own borders. What he’s demanding is that Canada do their border policing for them. Get real! But, again, border security is a distraction from his real purpose. He wants free access to Canada’s riches. Oh, right … Donald Trump claims that Canada has nothing that America needs.

And then there are Canadian snowbirds who every year inject hundreds of millions of dollars into the American economy. Oh, right yet again … Donald Trump claims that Canada has nothing that America needs.

Finally, let’s not delude ourselves into expecting support from other countries. No folks, we’re on our own. Don’t expect anyone to come to our aid. The economic power of America is enough to intimidate other countries out of supporting us, in much the same way as Trump has and is using political intimidation to silence critics in his country.

This is a wake-up call … and we’d better pay attention. We’re on our own, folks!

Thanks for this Banksy: